The Former "State Socialist" World: Views From The Left - Softcover

Mandel, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551640368 ISBN 13: 9781551640365

Publisher: Black Rose Books, 1996

Synopsis

What really happened after the fall of the Soviet Union? In The Former "State Socialist" World, David Mandel?renowned translator, labour scholar, and longtime observer of Russian society?brings together leading Western and Russian social scientists to provide a rare, ground-level view of the dramatic transformations sweeping post-socialist countries in the 1990s.

This powerful collection of essays and interviews features some of the most incisive democratic socialist thinkers of the era, examining how workers, intellectuals, and civil society were navigating the collapse of central planning, the rise of neoliberal capitalism, and the uncertain path toward democracy. By bridging East and West, Mandel offers not only sharp analysis, but also a vital record of voices often ignored in mainstream accounts of post-Soviet transition.

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About the Author

David Mandel teaches political science at the University of Quebec, Montreal. He is co-founder of the School for Worker Democracy, which conducts rank-and-file labour education in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, and has written extensively on labour, past and present, in the region. He is active in the socialist and trade-union movements in Canada.

Edition details

• Publisher: Black Rose Books
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1551640368
• ISBN 13: 9781551640365
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 190